A Wind of Cranes and the Rustle of Grass

Cuckoos do not build nests. They simply take over the nests of other birds.

Feng Chen took over no nest. He stole other people’s identities and names, and not even the top-secret files of the Eighth Bureau of the Military Statistics Department contained his photograph. They held only a code name unknown to the world: Red Cuckoo.

A prized Kuomintang agent, Feng Chen was ordered to infiltrate the Shanghai underground Communist Party to obtain a list of Communist agents embedded in the upper ranks of the Military Statistics Department...